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词汇 owl
释义 owl
noun[ C ]
uk /aʊl/ us /aʊl/
B2
a bird with a flat face and large eyes that hunts small mammals at night猫头鹰,鸮
 
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(alsonight owl)
a person who likes to stay up late at night夜猫子(喜欢熬夜的人)
Examples

The owl is a predatory bird which kills its prey with its claws.
Stone farm buildings are ideal nesting sites for barn owls.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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owl | American Dictionary


owl
noun[ C ]
us/ɑʊl/
a bird with a flat face, large round eyes, a hook-shaped beak, and strong, curved nails, that hunts small mammals at night

Examples of owl


owl
Miniature stereo radio transmitter for simultaneous recording of multiple single-neuron signals from behaving owls.
In their model the juvenile owls are assumed to search for suitable territories (moving), while the adults have already occupied a suitable territory (resting).
Orienting head movements resulting from electrical microstimulation of the brainstem tegmentum in the barn owl.
The owl's response is brief and cryptic: learn how to fly.
Finally, there is a strong relationship between the center and surround volume across all cell classes in owl monkeys as well as other species.
One problem we have encountered is that owl provides no mechanism to specify default values of properties.
Both approaches, however, were too time-consuming to be per formed in awake, fixating owls.
The head of eating the owl, for instance, is eating.
Fused binocular vision is required for development of proper eye alignment in barn owls.
He did this through a parable, which he placed in the mouth of an owl.
Incremental training increases the plasticity of the auditory space map in adult barn owls.
The retina of the owl-monkey shows a number of features consistent with a highly nocturnal lifestyle.
They seem to represent retinal specializations to the nocturnal and diurnal life styles of the owl-monkey and capuchin monkey, respectively.
Feeding relationships and competitive interactions between phylogenetically unrelated predators (owls and snakes).
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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